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Shakespeare with Leo Schaff - The Winter’s Tale
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Join charismatic actor and teacher Leo Schaff as he breathes life into Shakespeare’s words, acting out portions of the play and offering illuminating insights into the Bard’s language, plot lines, historical context and eternal relevance, all with a generous sense of humor. The Tempest - January 8 The magic hand of Prospero guides us through storm, loss, adventure and abandonment—to comedy, romance, and righteous reconciliation. Ariel, Caliban,...
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Reading Latin American Fiction
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Beginning in the early twentieth century, the various Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America began developing a unique style of fantastic literature. Under the influence of Poe (via France) and certain schools of philosophy (the Pre-Socratics, Berkeley, William James, Existenialism) writers as different as Borges, García Márquez and Armonía Somers created a new way of looking at everyday reality.
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Reading the Bible with Noam Scheindlin
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
The Bible's indelible mark on literature is not just in the stories that it tells, but in the way those stories are told. In this class, we read and explore the compelling and subtle narratives of the Bible, which have been so influential on the development of the Western literary tradition. In this secular approach to a sacred text, we will be very interested in the sophisticated psychological portrayals of characters such as Joseph, Moses and...
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Homer's Odyssey
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Composed sometime between the seventh and eighth centuries B.C., Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest works of world literature and the ancestor of virtually every narrative that involves a difficult journey home. The longing to return home is for Odysseus is the longing of a man to recover his identity as a king, husband, and father after having spent ten years in the Trojan war. The effort to return home involves him in a perilous journey thwarted...
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Memoir with Anya Yurchyshyn
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Our personal stories are a vital part of who we are. When we explore our stories by writing memoir, we have the opportunity to understand our experiences more deeply and give others a chance to reflect on theirs. In this course, students will produce and share original autobiographical work, examine aspects of craft such as voice, structure and narration, and engage in critical conversations around topics such as memory, truth (and “truth”),...
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Reading Ulysses with Michael Groden
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Work through selected chapters of Ulysses and discovery what makes the novel resonate today, with Michael Groden, editor of the James Joyce Archive
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Arguably, Some of the Best Books of the 20th Century
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
The operative word here is “arguably.” Read the books, discuss their meaning, their message, and of course, argue their merits (or demerits). Please read The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow for the first meeting. Books include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, Howard's End by E.M. Forster and The Wide Sargasso by Jean Rhys.
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Dante's Divine Comedy: Purgatorio
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
The course focuses on Purgatorio, the second of the three cantiche of Dante’s the Divine Comedy. Having been led through Hell by his poetic idol Virgil, through whom Dante has learned in the most graphic fashion the true nature of sin, Virgil now guides Dante on the arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory on which the potentially saved soul is cleansed of sin in preparation for the soul's reconciliation with God in Paradise. The Purgatorio's...
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Best of World Literature
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Enjoy the stunning work of these authors from around the world. Please read Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such for the first class, Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes for the second, the first half of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook for the third, the second half of Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook for the fourth, and Anna Burns’ Milkman for the final session. Please read each work before the corresponding session..
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Coffee and Classics: Shakespeare's Rom-Coms
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Shakespeare began his career with a sequence of romantic comedies: Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. In the first of these plays, the lovers lament that, “the course of true love never did run smooth,” and it certainly goes haywire in all these plays as a result of the love drug in Midsummer and gender disguise in As You Like It and Twelfth Night. Ultimately, however, Puck assures us, “Jack shall have Jill, / Naught...
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Great American Fiction
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Experience the creative genius of some of the nation’s most gifted authors, both past and present. Please read Anthony Marra’s A Constellation of Vital Phenomena for the first class, Edna Ferber’s So Big for the second, James Alan McPherson’s Elbow Room for the third, Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women for the fourth, and William Faulkner’s The Reivers for the final session. Please read each work before the corresponding session....
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Great Short Novels
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Delve into some of the best short novels of the 20th century. Spend the first weeks of summer delving into some of the best short novels.
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Guide to the Haggadah
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Get ready for Passover with this three-part program diving into the Haggadah. The Haggadah as we have it today is a complex document that has undergone generations of textual and artistic innovation. We will examine Haggadot from the early medieval period through today. We will see how the document has historically developed both textually and artistically in order to prepare for Seder and better appreciate why we do what we do. PROOF OF COVID-19...
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$18
Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Museum of the City of New York - Public See all classes by this school @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for a coffee-fueled Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon that aims to both expand the historical records of feminist activism on Wikipedia and combat the gender gap in its editing -- less than 10% of Wikipedia editors are women. Drop in any time between 3:00 pm and 5:30 pm to help create and refine Wikipedia pages associated with the women activists spotlighted in our current exhibition Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics (on...
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"Also a Poet" with Ada Calhoun
Museum of the City of New York - Public See all classes by this school @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Author Ada Calhoun and writer Rob Sheffield discuss Calhoun's new memoir Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me (2020); a groundbreaking memoir "packaged as a love triangle: father, daughter and O’Hara. It’s actually a tetrahedron from which all kinds of creative characters pop forth. It’s a big valentine to New York City past and present, and a contribution to literary scholarship, molten with soul" (The New York Times). Followed...
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$20
Reading Boccaccio’s the Decameron with Joseph Luzzi
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
“It is human to have compassion for the suffering.” So begins Giovanni Boccaccio’s extraordinary classic, the Decameron, a collection of one hundred short stories written in 1353, just five years after the Great Plague of 1348 that claimed millions of lives throughout Europe and more than half of the population of Boccaccio’s hometown, Florence. Boccaccio’s work has long been celebrated for its bawdy humor and open consideration of...
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Food Memoirs Reading Group
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program ___________ Food-lovers know that the stories of our lives are often told in the kitchen. Spend the last weeks of summer digging into some these stories in our Food Memoirs reading group, led by Kitchen Arts and Letters’ Laura Jackson. Get together to explore the personal accounts of four legendary chefs—Michael...
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Memoirs: Jewish Authors on Identity, Culture, Language
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Memoirists write their personal stories in a way that appeals to the emotions and experiences of their readers. Jewish memoirists Esther Amini, Angela Himsel, and Ilan Stavans will sit down with author Marcia Butler to talk about how they use the memoir format to express their identity and history.
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$25
Reading the Divided Self
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Join Colm Tóibín, celebrated author of Brooklyn and professor at Columbia University, for a course on three Irish writers and three American writers. The divided self and the delighted eye—this course explores the idea of internal tension in a text, literature in which there is an argument enfolding, an argument that animates the text; as well as the idea of a double life, or a life that contains opposites, and the power of memory—how uncertain...
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$35
The Five Great Works of Fiction You Need to Read…Now
92nd Street Y See all classes by this school @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Join author Stephanie Rabinowitz for an exciting exploration of relatively unsung American literary gems that you should be reading. From Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop to John Williams’s Stoner, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Henry James’s What Maisie Knew, and Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose, Rabinowitz will focus on the rare and masterful ability of these authors to create narrators with...
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$20
